2013-14 ROWING FACT BOOK Table of Contents A Quick Look At Virginia Rowing Information 2013-14 Cavalier Roster .................................................................................3 Location Charlottesville, VA Head Coach Kevin Sauer (Purdue ’76, 19th season) Head Coach Kevin Sauer ............................................................................ 4-5 Founded 1819 by Thomas Jefferson Sauer’s E-mail [email protected] Coaching Staff ..................................................................................................6 Enrollment 20,399 (13,401 undergraduates) Rowing Office Phone 434-982-5827 Support Staff .....................................................................................................7 President Teresa A. Sullivan Associate Head Coach Brett Sickler 2012-13 Review .......................................................................................... 8-11 Athletics Director Craig Littlepage Sickler’s E-mail [email protected] National Honors ............................................................................................12 Faculty Athletics Rep Carolyn M. Callahan Novice Coach Joshua Gautreau All-Americans .......................................................................................... 13-14 Nicknames Cavaliers, Wahoos, ‘Hoos Gautreau’s E-mail [email protected] NCAA Championship Honors .............................................................. 15-16 Mascot Cavalier 2013-14 Captains Elle Murray, Emily Pik Regional Championship Honors ................................................................17 Song “Good Old Song” Home Water Rivanna Reservoir/Lake Monticello International Competitors...................................................................... 18-19 Affiliations NCAA Division I Boathouse Thomas Temple Allan Boathouse ACC Honors ...................................................................................................20 Atlantic Coast Conference Boathouse Phone 434-975-CREW Academic Honors ..........................................................................................21 Official Athletics Web Sites www.VirginiaSports.com Rowing Address PO Box 400852 All-Time Letterwinners .......................................................................... 22-23 www.VirginiaSportsTV.com Charlottesville, VA 22904-4852 University Web Site www.virginia.edu About the Fact Book Athletic Media Relations Virginia will not produce a printed women’s rowing media guide for the Main Office Phone 434-982-5500 2013-14 season. Please use this file for historical reference information on Fax 434-982-5525 Cavalier women’s rowing. Rowing Contact Tom Fenstermaker Fenstermaker’s Office Phone 434-982-5977 An updated PDF version of this file will be posted on the women’s rowing Fenstermaker’s Cell Phone 434-996-0044 page at VirginiaSports.com. Fenstermaker’s E-mail [email protected] Mailing Address PO Box 400853 Information that previously appeared in the printed rowing media guide Charlottesville, VA 22904-4853 will also be available on the rowing page at VirginiaSports.com in HTML Overnight Package Delivery John Paul Jones Arena format. Please bookmark that page in your browser for quick reference. 295 Massie Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 Complete bios on Cavalier coaches and rowers are available at VirginiaS- ports.com. Access player bios by clicking on the player’s name on the roster page. Tom Fenstermaker Assistant Athletics Media Relations Director/Rowing Contact VIRGINIA ROWING 2013-14 1 2 VIRGINIA ROWING 2013-14 2013-14 VIRGINIA ROWING ROSTER Name Ht. Yr. Hometown (High School) Paula Lewis JR 5-7 Virginia Beach, Va./Princess Anne Chelsea Adams SO 5-8 Chesapeake, Va./Great Bridge Colette Lucas-Conwell FR 5-4 Palo Alto, Calif./Palo Alto Anastasia Asher JR 5-10 Charlottesville, Va./Western Albemarle Dana Lueker FR 6-2 Williamsburg, Va./Lafayette HS Emmy Bateman FR 5-9 Stanwood, Wash./Holy Names Academy Dylan MacDonald FR 5-2 Lincoln, Mass./Phillips Academy Christine Bauk FR 5-9 Leonardtown, Md./Leonardtown Lyndsay Martini FR 5-10 Falls Church, Va./Bishop Ireton Hemingway Benton JR 5-10 Glencoe, IL/New Trier Kaity McCullough SR 5-9 Campbell, Calif./Presentation Ellie Biddle SO 5-10 South Salem, N.Y./St. Luke’s Sarah McGovern SR 5-3 Bala Cynwyd, Pa./Episcopal Academy Maggie Bowman-Jones JR 6-0 Moss Beach, CA/Terra Nova Andie McPartland JR 5-9 Poway, CA/Poway Janey Brennan FR 6-1 Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich./Grosse Pointe South Catherine Multari SR 5-11 Halifax, Nova Scotia/Holy Names Erin Briggs FR 5-11 Orono, Minn./Orono Elle Murray SR 5-10 Tampa, Fla./Plant Caroline Burke JR 5-10 South Dartmouth, Mass./Tabor Academy Allie Nicholson FR 5-10 Charlottesville, Va./St. Anne’s-Belfield Sam Casto SO 5-8 Dallas, Pa./Dallas Mary Nilan SR 5-6 Milford, Conn./Saint Joseph Kathryn Cook SO 5-10 Norfolk, Va./Norfolk Academy Hannah Osborne FR 5-10 Waitomo Caves, New Zealand/Waikato Diocesan Kameryn Corcoran FR 5-10 Middletown, Md./Middletown Ellen Pate FR 5-11 Lafayette, Calif./Miramonte Emily Crump JR 5-8 Darien, Conn./Darien Emily Pik SR 5-8 Darien, Conn./Darien Claire Cundiff SR 5-11 Arlington, Va./Thomas Jefferson Grace Plachy FR 5-10 Amagansett, N.Y./St. Paul’s Tessa Dikkers SO 5-11 Pelham, N.Y./Pelham Memorial Georgia Ratcliff FR 5-11 Falls Church, Va./James Madison HS Allie Donini SO 6-1 Summit, N.J./Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child Jennifer Reid SO 5-10 Stafford, Va./Mountain View High School Alysse Dowdy FR 5-7 Chesapeake, Va./Clear Springs Allison Robertson FR 5-6 Danville, Va./George Washington HS Constanze Duell SR 5-8 Oberschleissheim, Germany/Tech. Univ. of Munich Julia Roithmayr JR 5-1 Yorktown, Va./York Kaitlin Fanikos JR 5-10 Boston, Mass./Phillips Academy Dani Roques FR 5-11 Fairfax Station, Va./South County Marissa Garey FR 6-1 Salem, Mass./Groton School Fiona Schlesinger SR 6-0 New Malden, Surrey, UK/Lady Eleanor Holles Jo Gurman FR 5-9 Weston, Conn./Weston Jamie Schug FR 5-3 Virginia Beach, Va./Frank W Cox Jill Hannink FR 5-10 Winter Park, Fla./Winter Park Karen Schulte FR 5-11 Trout Run, Pa./Montoursville Area Ashley Hendrickson SR 5-9 Centreville, Va./Centreville Lindsay Shallman FR 6-3 Lake Oswego, Ore./Lake Oswego Brandy Herald SR 6-5 Portland, Ore./Lake Oswego Mackenzi Sherman SO 5-9 Los Alamitos, Calif./Hope Christian Academy Dani Hester FR 5-10 Middleburg, Va./Freedom Hannah Solis-Cohen SO 5-10 New York, N.Y./Northfield Mount Hermon Kristen Hickman JR 6-1 Gloucester, Va./Gloucester Chloe Sykes JR 5-2 Ashburn, Va./Herndon Maddie Hilbrant JR 5-11 Winnetka, Ill./New Trier Paige Terry SR 5-10 Greenwich, Conn./Convent of the Sacred Heart Alissa Hornung SO 5-3 Weston/Weston High School Stephanie Turnbull FR 5-10 Ancaster, Ontario/Brentwood College School Kelsey Hunt FR 5-7 Boulder, Colo./Fairview Ella van der Haar GS Amsterdam, The Netherlands Liv Hutton FR 6-1 Purcellville, Va./Woodgrove Nina Vascotto SO 5-10 Huntington, N.Y./Friends Academy Sarah Ianni SO 5-10 Woodbridge, Va./CD Hylton High School Alexandra Williams FR 5-11 Melbourne, Australia/Genazzano FCJ College Sarah Jordan SR 5-3 Flourtown, Pa./Mount Saint Joseph Academy Hannah Yoest JR 5-6 Arlington, Va./Yorktown Lexie Katz JR 6-0 Wayne, Pa./Radnor Lizzy Youngling JR 6-1 Westport, Conn./Staples Maddie Keating JR 5-10 Severna Park, Md./Severna Park Ali Zwicker FR 6-1 Victoria, British Columbia/Claremont Hannah Kessenich FR 5-5 Waxhaw, N.C./Marvin Ridge Hayley LaFleche JR 5-0 New York, N.Y./Columbia Prep Chandler Lally JR 5-11 Bryn Mawr, Pa./Radnor Brodde Lamb JR 5-7 Charlottesville, Va./Charlottesville Taylor Leonard FR 5-9 Arlington, Va./Washington Lee VIRGINIA ROWING 2013-14 3 Head Coach 27th Season at Virginia 19 Seasons with Varsity Team 7 Seasons with Club Team Kevin Sauer finished his 18th year as the head coach of the Virginia rowing NCAA Championships. Virginia defended its national championship in the KEVIN SAUERprogram in 2013 and has led the Cavaliers to seven consecutive top-six finishes Varsity Four and also won the NCAA Championship in the Second Varsity at the NCAA Championships. Eight. In 2006, Virginia captured its seventh consecutive ACC championship, In 2012, Sauer accomplished one thing that had eluded him throughout sweeping every race. his coaching career, the First Varsity Eight won the national championship The Cavaliers continued their winning ways in 2007, sweeping all four to clinch Virginia its second NCAA Championship on Mercer Lake in West events en route to their eighth consecutive ACC Championship. UVa then Windsor, N.J. made South/Central Regional history by winning every race in which it In the 18-year history of varsity program, the Cavaliers’ Varsity Four boat competed. The ‘Hoos capped off their season with a second-place finish at the had won at the national regatta four times and the Second Varsity Eight three NCAA Championships, their third national runner-up finish in nine years. times, but the First Varsity Eight had never accomplished the feat. The Varsity Four captured its third NCAA title in that race. Two years after winning the school’s first national team title in 2010, Sauer During Sauer’s tenure, the Cavaliers have had 43 All-American citations led the Cavaliers to their 12th Atlantic Coast Conference crown and led the and 62 All-ACC honorees. Additionally, 17 Virginia rowers were named to the program’s premier boat to its first title after finishing runner-up three times, ACC’s 50th Anniversary Rowing Team. In 2006, a league-high 16 Cavaliers twice in the last three years. were named to the inaugural